Poll: Ghosts and Aliens

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bam13302

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I got to thinking about ghosts and aliens, and one intersting thought came to my head that maybe alien (possibly caught between universes, out of phase(phase shift or something) or just with stealth look like ghosts to us, they may be trapped and some are trying to communicate with us, or something, i dont know, but i wanted to see what you all think. A similar poll may already exist, didnt really check

EDIT:GAH WTF NO POLL?!?
well options were
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the combinations of yes/no to ghost/alien
aliens are ghosts
i dont know and dont care
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EDIT 2: removed TAPS stuff to dodge potential moderator wrath, feel free to rant, but i dont feel like pushing any bounderies or starting a TAPS flame war...
 

lasherman

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Until someone comes up with something better than "Oh look, my EMF metre lit up! The only possible explanation is that it is a ghost!", I will not believe anything paranormal has ever happened.

Also, in answer to your intended poll, yes I believe in the possibility of aliens, (although I don't believe they have ever visited earth and probed a bunch of hillbillies), no I don't believe in ghosts.
 
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tellmeimaninja said:
Er... Well. I'm not sure what I can say that won't get me punished...
I think what you're looking for is "Neither of those exist". The bit that you'll get you punished (the name calling and swearing) is entirely option, though neccessary.

EDIT: When I say Aliens don't exist I mean XFiles style grays and stuff.
 

Woodsey

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It's almost impossible for aliens to not exist (or to have existed). Ghosts on the other hand... If you're dead, you're dead. There's no evidence to the contrary.

As for your theory? No. Just no.
 

demoman_chaos

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Aliens exist, but I'm 98% sure none know what an "Earth" is.

Ghosts are debatable. There is evidence to support the theory of ghosts, but there is nothing solid.
 

PacRatFilms

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Cody211282 said:
I don't believe in ether of them, and until actual proof comes out saying there is I wont.
I don't believe in ghosts either, but aliens? C'mon, do you really think we're the only intelligent life forms in an infinite amount of space?
 

FallenJellyDoughnut

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lasherman said:
Until someone comes up with something better than "Oh look, my EMF metre lit up! The only possible explanation is that it is a ghost!", I will not believe anything paranormal has ever happened.

Also, in answer to your intended poll, yes I believe in the possibility of aliens, (although I don't believe they have ever visited earth and probed a bunch of hillbillies), no I don't believe in ghosts.
EMF meters *scowl* I hate them, everyone gets one and thinks that the slightest change in electro magnetic fields is a fucking ghost.
 

Cody211282

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PacRatFilms said:
Cody211282 said:
I don't believe in ether of them, and until actual proof comes out saying there is I wont.
I don't believe in ghosts either, but aliens? C'mon, do you really think we're the only intelligent life forms in an infinite amount of space?
I should have worded that better, I don't think aliens have ever visited earth, or abducted anyone, or just joyride to confuse people.
 

Dags90

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How does this hypothesis explain the wide differences in descriptions of the appearance of ghosts?
 

Luke Greensmith

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Your theory goes all the way up to "diverting short story" before overstretching and collapsing.

Anything that can be connected to an episode of Doctor Who is usually a stretch.

As for ghosts and aliens in general?

Define "ghost".

Define "alien".

Life on other planets? We pretty much know there's bacterial life in this solar system that isn't from Earth. Alien life forms DO exist. Sapient human like life forms? Unkown/unkowable. You could only disproove it by searching every other planet in the Universe (never going to hapen), and it would only matter outside of fiction if we ever actually found them.

Ghosts? Currently unexplained paranormal activity that will one day gain a scientific explaination? Yes. Restless souls? Doubt it.



If this does get a poll, can I vote 'Meh' please?
 

Okuu_Fusion

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I believe aliens exist... But I doubt they've ever been to Earth... Maybe though, in the past...

Ghosts... Well, I think they may be just recordings from previous existences...
 

Kagim

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Eh...

My theory on ghosts is they are just electrical patterns being released after you die getting stuck. Thus the unsettling feeling some people get through a graveyard is just so many impulses in a smallish place that people can pick up on easier.

Of course this operates under the "Humans are walking radio transceivers" theory. Which i have had some science teacher tell me has merit and others laugh and tell me is kinda dumb....

Aliens... Well, when i see one i'll tell you what i think.
 

YouCallMeNighthawk

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I think that aliens do exist and that they do know we are here, but don't want to contact us because we are probably far too inferior to be associated with any other beings.
 

unoleian

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Unless either can be completely proven or disproven...

...I'm open to the idea of either.

Lived in a house once that I'm completely convinced was haunted. Seriously, you just can't explain why some place you spend every day of your life at that time would give you a serious, chronic case of the heebies like that when almost nowhere else, strange or otherwise, even comes close to that super-paranoid, "I'm being watched" feeling for no reason at all. Downright spooky feeling, really.

Weird stuff.
 

Kollega

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I believe that there's an extraterrestrial life (it's really hard not to), but i'm also pretty sure they have not visited Earth yet. What we'll probably get as we finally meet them are insectoids (with all the weirdness that implies), giant floating jellyfishes filled with gas, or a sapient crystal communicating through telepathy. As for ghosts... no, i don't believe in ghosts. Maybe because i don't visit old houses or graveyards or the like.

As for your theory of aliens being mistaken for ghosts... it dosen't sound too plausible, but it's an intresting one.
 

Griphphin

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demoman_chaos said:
Ghosts are debatable. There is evidence to support the theory of ghosts, but there is nothing solid.
Yeah, people tend to see right through most of the evidence that people bring forth :p

OT:pun aside, there's probably aliens out there, somewhere, but ghosts, I'll need more hard evidence before I'll believe [sub](okay I'll stop)[/sub]
 

gravitii

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your theory is rather strange and kind of a long shot, but would make a decent videogame story. I think aliens exist although idk if there are intelligent ones and that's mainly 'cause intelligent is hard to define. insects are arguably very intelligent because of the whole hive mind idea, any animal that has some sort of strategy for food gathering like hunting prey or getting that hard to reach nut is intelligent, or if you wanna go a step up from there pack animals are arguably very intelligent in that they have social skills and hunting prowess, or if you define intelligence by tool using that narrows it down a little better, but how advanced the tools? monkey level, caveman level, or ancient society level, then you have to ask if civilization is required for intelligence. You can argue that the peeps of mesopotamia who started growing wheat and thus starting civilization are smarter than the african hunter gatherers of the same time, but really they're exactly the same, they just have different niches. And now we have our level of intelligence and beyond. really there could be tons of intelligent life out there but i highly doubt any of it would reach the point of space travel, and if they could the fact that we can't find them means they're probably too far away to ever meet up with us.

Then again i've heard all the stories about alien coverups in america and the whole rosweld incident and the most realistic thing to have happened is that area 51 and hanger 18 are doing some illegal weapons development and such and either a hippie saw something he didn't understand and called it a crashed alien space ship or the government itself leaked the alien idea so people wouldn't accuse them of something else. really if aliens did show up i wish the government wouldn't cover it up because unless it's a weapon of war it's mostly in the public's rights to know. it's wishful thinking but i'd love to believe maybe the stray alien or two has visited us.

a little off topic but when watching a really stupid show about crop circles and this lady was trying to tie this spiritual thing into them i was just imagining a couple of aliens who made those circles watching that show and laughing their alien asses of at this lady.


i doubt ghosts exist, when you die you go to the afterlife, no in between and no escaping the afterlife. but ghosts is part of the bigger concept of supernatural and paranormal stuff, some of which is probably true, just not ghosts. and according to your EMF meter i can summon a ghost by coiling some electrical wire, muahaha!!

and there's this sort of saying which goes "magic is just science we don't understand yet." i believe in that.
 

bam13302

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well this is all theory/beliefs/interesting concepts, i have seen no really certifiable evidence to support any of it, i dont know about ghosts, i believe that there is a good chance aliens exist considering how ****ing massive the universe is, but considering -we- have -seen- <1% of the freakin galaxy, the chance that alien life even knows we exist is slim, possible, but slim
but of course, we must remember the fundamental law, where there is life, there are a**holes (brownie points for reference), and aliens may be playing practical jokes on us, or maybe we are the practical joke, either way, its all guesses and theory with little to no evidence


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